Working Papers

About the baby and the bathwater: assessing the European Platform against Poverty

Sebastiano Sabato, OSE; Bart Vanhercke, OSE

Publication date : 2014

Number of pages :
36

Author(s) :

Sebastiano Sabato, OSE; Bart Vanhercke, OSE

This Working Paper provides a qualitative assessment of one of Europe 2020's flagship initiatives: the 'European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion' (EPAP).

The paper argues that a transformed EPAP has the potential to provide strong added value for the EU's toolbox in the fight against poverty. Rather than throwing out the baby with the bathwater, the mid-term review of the Europe 2020 Strategy should be used as a window of opportunity to revamp this tool by addressing its weaknesses. The authors propose three complementary scenarios for boosting, step by step, the effectiveness of the Platform.